Web. 2.0
1.Go to Kerpoof
2.In the very top right hand corner should be a button labeled "login." Click on it.
3. To get to my account, type in the following:
Username: Lee2011
Password: mequon011
4. To see my creation for this project, go to the column with "Currently Popular" and go down in the list till you find "My Creations." My actual creation is the second creation from the right of the four that are shown.
Kerpoof is a very visual, organized, and child friendly website dedicated for student exploration and creation. Students can use the website tools to create things such as pictures, stories, and movies. The website provides a variety of materials (cartoon characters, colors) and tools (paint buckets, pencils) to make their creations. Students are automatically given an avatar that they can personalize as well as a number of online coins that they can gain from creating things with the website tools as well as sharing creations with other friends on Kerpoof. Coins can not only be used to buy new things for their avatars, but can also buy new brushes or items for creating things. Students can chose to make things like stories and/or storybooks, movies, cards, drawings, or pictures. To see my creation, click on the column in the middle of the screen that says “Currently Popular” and go to “My Creations.” At the bottom of the screen, the five picture bubbles will change and there should be four bubbles filled in “My Creations.” My creation for this class should be the second one from the right with a question at the bottom left-hand side of the picture. This is my picture from the “Make a Picture activity.” To begin the activity, you must find it in the circle of choices and click on it. First, you must choose a background. Once you chose a background, you are free to become as creative and personal as they want with this. You can use pictures from the gallery on the right to illustrate events taking place in the picture. If there isn’t a picture that you want visible in the gallery you can go to the search button on the bottom right hand side of the screen and type it what you are looking for. Once they have a picture, they can change the size and rotate it and add speech bubbles to the characters for dialogue. This would be excellent for students who are showing a scene from a story or letting fellow students write their own stories based on what is taking place in the picture. Students can add doodles, other text, or jpeg pictures to their picture and can print it, email it, or save it to their Kerpoof accounts.
Overall I thought this site was a very helpful and interactive site and I think elementary students would love spending time on it. All the activities allow room for individualism and creativity and could be used for several reading lessons, depending on the subject. As I said, the “Make a Picture” activity could be a great tool for students to use contextual clues in each other’s pictures to either figure out what is going on in the story or create their own endings to it. Other tools, such as the “Spell a Picture” activity are great for helping students visualize the words they are spelling. To create an account, which I liked, the site requires the students to get parental approval by requesting their email beforehand. The students could work on the site either during a language arts lesson or simply when they have free time. Clearly the teacher would know how to use the website (which also provides lesson plans) and would have to show the site to the students and explain how to use it to them. All in all, I really do think that it could be an excellent resource for helping students practice their reading skills.
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Web. 2.0
1.Go to Kerpoof
2.In the very top right hand corner should be a button labeled "login." Click on it.
3. To get to my account, type in the following:
Username: Lee2011
Password: mequon011
4. To see my creation for this project, go to the column with "Currently Popular" and go down in the list till you find "My Creations." My actual creation is the second creation from the right of the four that are shown.
Kerpoof is a very visual, organized, and child friendly website dedicated for student exploration and creation. Students can use the website tools to create things such as pictures, stories, and movies. The website provides a variety of materials (cartoon characters, colors) and tools (paint buckets, pencils) to make their creations. Students are automatically given an avatar that they can personalize as well as a number of online coins that they can gain from creating things with the website tools as well as sharing creations with other friends on Kerpoof. Coins can not only be used to buy new things for their avatars, but can also buy new brushes or items for creating things. Students can chose to make things like stories and/or storybooks, movies, cards, drawings, or pictures. To see my creation, click on the column in the middle of the screen that says “Currently Popular” and go to “My Creations.” At the bottom of the screen, the five picture bubbles will change and there should be four bubbles filled in “My Creations.” My creation for this class should be the second one from the right with a question at the bottom left-hand side of the picture. This is my picture from the “Make a Picture activity.” To begin the activity, you must find it in the circle of choices and click on it. First, you must choose a background. Once you chose a background, you are free to become as creative and personal as they want with this. You can use pictures from the gallery on the right to illustrate events taking place in the picture. If there isn’t a picture that you want visible in the gallery you can go to the search button on the bottom right hand side of the screen and type it what you are looking for. Once they have a picture, they can change the size and rotate it and add speech bubbles to the characters for dialogue. This would be excellent for students who are showing a scene from a story or letting fellow students write their own stories based on what is taking place in the picture. Students can add doodles, other text, or jpeg pictures to their picture and can print it, email it, or save it to their Kerpoof accounts.
Overall I thought this site was a very helpful and interactive site and I think elementary students would love spending time on it. All the activities allow room for individualism and creativity and could be used for several reading lessons, depending on the subject. As I said, the “Make a Picture” activity could be a great tool for students to use contextual clues in each other’s pictures to either figure out what is going on in the story or create their own endings to it. Other tools, such as the “Spell a Picture” activity are great for helping students visualize the words they are spelling. To create an account, which I liked, the site requires the students to get parental approval by requesting their email beforehand. The students could work on the site either during a language arts lesson or simply when they have free time. Clearly the teacher would know how to use the website (which also provides lesson plans) and would have to show the site to the students and explain how to use it to them. All in all, I really do think that it could be an excellent resource for helping students practice their reading skills.
CASTBOOK:
Penny's Perfect Pumpkin Pie
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